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August 24th, 2008

S60 Freeware - T9 Nav Beta - Use your texting skillz to access anything on your S60 mobile

This is a great little free alternative to SkyeQuiKey which allows you to use predictive text to locate and access anything on your S60 mobile handset.

For example to access anything Google you simply key in 466 from your home screen, T9 Nav will automaticlly filter all applications, contacts, bookmarks and media that corrospond to your key strokes.

It can cause a bit of a slowdown when typing SMS’s but I am sure the developers will resolve these issues during the Beta period.

You can find out more and download T9 Nav Beta here.

Tags: beta, S60 apps, S60 freeware, SMS

August 24th, 2008

Nokia Tip: Fix “Installing” error on S60 handset startup

Have you ever encountered “installing” on your screen while your device is starting up?

If so then unfortunatly the only way to solve the issue is to format your handset.

The error is caused by an unknown sis file on your phones hard drive.
You can try to find the offending application via the Application Manager.

Press Menu,
Then Applications,
Then App Mgr

If you cannot delete or remove the dodgy app via the application manager then the solution is to format your handset.

WARNING! YOU WILL LOOSE ALL OF YOUR HANSET DATA

make sure you do a full backup using the Nokia PC Suite BEFORE you attempt a format.

After formating you won’t find the “installing” error.

Good Luck.

Tags: error, Nokia Tip, PC Suite, S60, S60 apps

August 23rd, 2008

S60 App Upgrade - Fring adds support for S60 Feature Pack 2 devices

One of my favourite S60 applications is Fring.
Fring is an S60 Instant Messenger (IM) application sthat allows you to chat with your MSN, ICQ, AIM, Google Talk & Skype contacts.

The Fring team’s latest update is significant as it updates support for Samsung S60 devices as well as fixes a really annoying stability issue with the Nokia e71.

Ontop of this the latest update also add’s support for the following Symbian 9.3 & S60 Feature Pack (FP2) handsets; Nokia N78, Nokia 6550, Nokia 6210, Nokia 6220, Nokia 5320.

You can download Fring directly from your handset by visiting http://fring.com or get more information by visiting this page on your PC.

Tags: Fring, google talk, internet calling, Nokia e71, S60 freeware, Skype

August 23rd, 2008

How to: Configure Push Email on Nokia e71

My wife recently upgraded from an old Nokia 6288 to a brand spanking new Nokia e71 on the 3mobile network here in Australia.

I can’t tell you how overjoyed she was to hold her new toy and short a time it took for her to hand it over to me to configure.

The primary reason she wanted the e71 was its QWERTY keyboard as she wanted the ability to check and respond to emails as quickly as possible.

After a bit of tinkering I had email configured using IMAP into her Google Apps email account and thought that that was it. In theory I had hoped that using IMAP anyeails read on the handset would automaticlly be marked as read in her Google Apps account and visa versa. But alas, this was not the case.

Emails marked as read and even archived from with the Gmail interface would still download onto the handset and display as unread messages.

Needless to say I had the handset promptly handed back over to me with the demand to “make it work”.

So I did a bit of investigating and found a couple of 3rd party yet native S60 applications that claimed to provide Push Email.

The first that I tried was Emoze - http://www.emoze.com
I kid you not but I spent the better part of 2 hours trying to get this software to work but for the life of me I could not get it to connect to the email account.

It was promptly uninstalled.

The second solution that I tried is called SEVEN.

Let me tell you this software, whilst still in Beta, is magic!
SEVEN supports a range of pre-configured email providers such as Gmail, Google Apps, Yahoo and “other” email providers.

For my wifes Google Apps Email account I simply had to input her username and password and blamo it worked. I was astounded.

Next came the test. Would it actually perform a real time email push and sync? The answer? Yes it does. My wife sitting at her computer could see me reading her emails (the only time I could get away with this without suffering immense pain). We were both overjoyed.

I would definatly recommend SEVEN to anyone using an S60 handset who wants true real time PUSH email support.

You can register for the SEVEN user forums here - http://community.seven.com/forum/main.php

You can download the SEVEN email client for S60 here - http://preview.seven.com/get/client/dl.do?b=def_seven

Tags: 3mobile, beta, email, gmail, google apps, Nokia e71, Push Email, S60 apps, S60 freeware, sync

August 23rd, 2008

New S60 App - Yahoo! oneSearch Shortcut for S60

First it was Google with a mobile search application for S60 but now Yahoo! has jumped on the band wagon with Yahoo! oneSearch shortcut for S60.

Using the same access method as Google Search for Mobile, Yahoo oneSearch shortcut is accessed by simply hitting the Pencil key. You can then simply key in your search query and you are off and searching.

One of the key differentiators between Yahoo oneSearch shortcut and Google Search for Mobile is oneSearch’s Search Assist feature which makes search suggestions while your type.

Unfortunatly however there is no localisation for Australia at time of writing.

You can download yahoo oneSearch Shortcut for S60 directly on your handset via http://m.yahoo.com/shortcut or get more info via your PC at http://mobile.yahoo.com/onesearch/shortcut

Tags: Freeware, mobile search, n95, S60 apps, S60 freeware, yahoo